Tall and Tanned and Young and Lovely
James Davidson: The naked body in Ancient Greece, 18 June 1998
Art, Desire and the Body in Ancient Greece
by Andrew Stewart.
Cambridge, 272 pp., £45, April 1997,0 521 45064 0 Show More
by Andrew Stewart.
Cambridge, 272 pp., £45, April 1997,
“... man of adultery was like charging an invalid with assault. All this led the French classicist Jean-Pierre Vernant to conclude that the Greek body was best seen, not as a lump of meat, temporarily animated by the soul, but as a source of energy and light, a corps éclatant. When the body was at its best, powerful attributes played over its surface like a kind ... ”